I think the problem isn't that it's "invalid" but that the number returned should be an area and not a point - they have enough information to say the IP is loc

I think the problem isn't that it's "invalid" but that the number returned should be an area and not a point - they have enough information to say the IP is located in the US. It's somewhat reasonable to return this as a center + a radius of certainty, saying, "It's somewhere in this circle" - I'm not sure if Maxmind returns a radius, but I wouldn't put it past the police to see a point in the center of a giant circle and say, "OK, let's go to that point" - not realizing the point of the circle. In reality, it should probably return a shape file of some sort.